Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...autumn day last week in Seton Village, N. Mex., death came to a man who, in an age of sweeping mechanization, had loved the natural earth, its seasons and its creatures, with rare intensity and an unusual power to communicate his vision to others. To three generations of children whom his stories of wild life had introduced to the life of woods and fields, to naturalists indebted to the scope and minute fidelity of his discernments, Ernest Thompson Seton's death was something like the falling of a forest tree...
...novel furnishes the key to the evolvement of his thought across the past few years. All of Warren's work has been informed with an acute and very private sense of Doom. But in his maturer poems, and now in "All The King's Men," Warren has translated this vision of Evil into one of religious affirmation. Willie Stark is corrupted and dies, but through his death Jack Burden finds a love and happiness he had never known. In this does Willie Stark fulfill his own transposition of the Biblical story of the grain of wheat: "good must come...
...wasn't until after I had read this that I realized how bad my eyesight had become. I promptly went to see a doctor who found I had perfect vision but recommended a pink boric acid eyewash morning and night. He also gave me some medicine for my liver, which had become enlarged and inflamed due to too much riding over Donbas roads...
...Built entirely of a time defying, beige and yellow tinted stone, the newest buildings seem as old as the oldest, and the most ancient houses, no older than the now. And when the city is seen from the heights of Mount Scopus, sleeping under the brilliant summer sun, the vision is breathtaking...
...Missouri-born Clarence Streit (rhymes with bright), the idea of a federation of free peoples is both a vision and a career. His favorite citation of its workability: the U.S., which was once a league of sovereign states. As a young A.E.F. veteran and U.S. attaché at Versailles, Streit saw the kind of peacemaking that followed World War I. As a New York Times correspondent at Geneva (1929-39), he saw the kind of peace-keeping that preceded World War II. His book Union Now urged a modified national sovereignty, an international federation of democracies. To promote the ideal...